First
you really should look at the Open Source Initiative website
- they are the best authority on what the licensing issues
are. In particular, look at the page on licensing options:
http://opensource.org/licenses/index.html

There
are four main licenses that are used for Open Source software
- to take the quick route, you might want to just select
one of these:

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